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Sleep Capsule – (1994)

In keeping with the theme I laid out with last night’s Loveslug post, Sleep Capsule not only sounded like the product of the world’s most infamous grunge outpost, they were actually residents thereof. And like Loveslug, S/C had next-to-no affiliation with Sub Pop Records (save for a well-under-the-radar single in 1996)…but get a load of their 1994 debut, mousepuss. Behold, salvo upon billowy salvo of distorto-punk sludge, like so much lava hurling from a volcano, yielding a scalding wad of obsidian, out-bludgeoning the Melvins or even Bleach-era Nirvana. Sleep Capsule’s m.o. wasn’t unlike that of fellow Northwesterner’s Unwound, albeit this power trio were operating on a warmer frequency. In fact, the Cap’s dissonance and loose song structures were not without tuneful shadings – the band’s saving grace, in fact. I’m hearing frantic elements of Die Kreuzen on this record as well. You can check out a trio of S/C singles that surrounded mousepuss (and their follow-up, Pink Eye) here with some additional observations that I didn’t want to be redundant about in this piece.